Most lemon trees don't die from neglect. They die from decisions made before the first drop of water ever hits the soil. The wrong pot, the wrong soil mix, and a plant that was never going to fruit to ...

A citrus tree expert reveals how to grow a lemon tree in a pot, including getting the plant to produce fruit. Ted Betz Growing lemons in a container is easier than you may believe. “On a scale of one ...

An old tree can be perpetuated by grafting one of its stems onto a young rootstock. Learn how to graft trees that grow multiple fruits and the benefits of why graft trees are worth it. Grafting is the ...

You can't plant a lemon seed to grow a lemon tree. Sure, that seed will grow, but it probably won't produce fruit. Yet day after day I see these ideas online, presented as though they were viable ...

Grafting is a technique used to facilitate new plant growth. It involves attaching part of a plant or tree, called a scion, onto to another branch, called a rootstock. Grafting fruit trees has been in ...

Luther Burbank, the famed experimental horticulturalist, called it making old trees young again. But even for novices, fruit tree grafting is alluringly simple: a dormant branch or twig - a scion - is ...

Spring has sprung and that’s good news for gardeners who’ve been eager to dig into the soil once again. If you’re one of the few who’s added fruit trees to your crop list, there’s one practice you may ...

While Luther Burbank experimented with plants at his home and garden in Santa Rosa, he did the bulk of this work at Gold Ridge, his 11-acre property in Sebastopol. There he grew the famous tree that ...

If you’ve recently purchased a fruit or nut tree — or if you already have one in your home landscape — take a close look at the trunk near the soil surface. You might see a faint scar where two ...